EXTERNAL DVD PROBLEMS

I'm not a very technical person. I bought an external DVD burner to use with my laptop to recird movies off my video camera. The problem is that I cant get it to work. I've tried Nero7 and Sonic MyDVD Plus and also the program that came with my Video camera, in every case it gets almost to the end and freezes (time elapsed keeps ticking over but time remaining stays still), or it simly says cannot write to disk.
Its really annoying me.
(it burns music cds just fine)

I think the problem, if its a video dvd you are burning is the read in read out that it cannot finish, so thats either a corrupt video file that cannot be read, as burning is the last thing a writer does after caching the image or you need to try a different brand of dvd.
A tip is also try to burn at a slower speed as sometimes a faster speed results in more dvd glass coasters.

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Hi rox09
Well you can rip your DVD to any external drive using and third party DVD ripping software ,once you do that you will get a AVI,MPEG and any common fomats your DVD player supports

Inorder to play those files in your DVD player ,you need the check whether your DVD has a USB input port or else if you laptop or computer has a S-video out put and your TV has S-Video input ;you can play directly from your laptop/computer to the TV using a S-video Cable which is available in any Computer shop.
I hope this helps
VJ